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High-Rise Residential
Ground-up multifamily and luxury towers.
42.2808° N · 83.7430° WAnn Arbor / Michigan / Est. 2011
We unlockthe citiesof tomorrow.
A development firm
Oak Hill Development Group is a real estate development and investment firm in Ann Arbor, Michigan. We partner with ownership, capital, and the city to bring ambitious projects to life — and across the finish line.
Currently accepting new partnerships
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Capital✦
High-Rise Residential✦
Mixed-Use✦
Adaptive Reuse✦
Construction✦
Public-Private Partnerships✦
Joint Ventures✦
Entitlements✦
Capital✦
High-Rise Residential✦
Mixed-Use✦
Adaptive Reuse✦
Construction✦
Public-Private Partnerships✦
Joint Ventures✦
Entitlements✦
Capital✦
High-Rise Residential✦
Mixed-Use✦
Adaptive Reuse✦
Construction✦
Public-Private Partnerships✦
Joint Ventures✦
Manifesto01 — Why we exist
We don'tjust buildbuildings.We unlockwhat citiescould become.
Our belief
The most consequential developments — the ones that reshape skylines, restore neighborhoods, and create the public spaces a city is remembered for — almost never get built by accident.
They get built because somebody refused to let them stall. Oak Hill exists to be that somebody.
Fig. 0101Vision to delivery
We move projects forward.
When a major development stalls — at entitlements, at financing, at construction — we step in as a development partner with skin in the game. Owner's rep, co-developer, fixer. Whatever the project needs to ship.
Fig. 0202Capital that knows the market
We structure deals that close.
Conventional capital walks away from complexity. We don't. Joint ventures, mezz, EB-5, opportunity zones, public-private — we build capital stacks for projects the standard playbook can't underwrite.
Fig. 0303Local relationships, institutional discipline
We know Ann Arbor by name.
Planning staff. Council. Neighborhood groups. Lenders. Trades. After 15 years in this one market, the people who make projects happen here pick up the phone when we call.
Capabilities02 — How we work
Six disciplines. One outcome.
We bring every function a complex development needs under one partner — so the project keeps moving instead of stalling at the handoffs.
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Mixed-Use
Retail, office, and residential under one roof.
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Adaptive Reuse
Historic preservation and conversions.
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Entitlements & Approvals
Zoning, variances, PUDs, site plans.
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Capital Advisory
Debt, equity, and complex stacks.
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Construction Oversight
Owner's-rep services from GMP to C.O.
Approach03 — Method
From stalled to delivered.
Every engagement follows the same four-step arc. The work inside those steps is custom to the project — but the method is what keeps things on schedule.
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Diagnose
We trace the friction. Entitlements, capital, schedule, politics — usually all of them. No pitch deck until we understand the real problem.
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Structure
A delivery plan with milestones the lender, the city, and the GC will all actually believe. Honest dates. Honest numbers.
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Execute
We embed with the team. Running the meetings. Managing the trades. Holding the schedule. Senior partners, not associates.
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Deliver
From C.O. to lease-up to stabilization. We don't leave until the building is performing the way the pro forma promised.
About Oak Hill04 — The firm
Founded
2011
Based
Ann Arbor
Local operators. Institutional discipline.
Oak Hill was founded by operators who have spent their careers in this market — building the relationships, learning the politics, and understanding what makes a project here actually work.
We are deliberately small, deliberately senior, and deliberately selective. We'd rather work on three projects we can move than ten we can't.
Aligned
We co-invest in projects we work on when the deal warrants it. Our upside is the same as ownership's.
Local
Ann Arbor is the only market we serve. We're not building expertise — we already have it.
Accountable
Senior partners run every engagement, every meeting, every site visit. No farm-out to associates.